[yocto] Append recipe LICENCE checksum problem

[Randy Witt]

On 03/05/2015 12:46 PM, p_j_r_m wrote:
> I have a layer meta-mycompany where i want to append to the grub_2.00 recipe placed at openembedded-core layer just to add my custom grub.cfg file.
> Also, I see there is ALREADY a grub-2.00.bbappend file in my BSP layer (meta-montavista-1.4).My layer has highest priority.
>
> So I wrote a recipe called grub-2.00.bbappend like this in my layer:
>
> FILESEXTRAPATHS_prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
> SRC_URI = "file://grub${MYBOARD}.cfg "

You are overwriting the SRC_URI rather than appending to it. So my guess is that 
the source isn't getting fetched, which is why it says it can't find the license 
file.


> FILES_${PN}_append = "${base_prefix}/boot"
>
> do_install_append() {
>    if [ ! -d ${D}${base_prefix}/boot/grub ]
>    then
>       install -m 0755 -d ${S}${base_prefix}/boot/grub ${D}${base_prefix}/boot/grub
>    fi
>    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/grub${MYBOARD}.cfg ${D}${base_prefix}/boot/grub/grub.cfg
> }
>
> $MYBOARD is a custom name just to pick up the proper grub file for each platform.
>
> But when i do a "bitbake grub" I get:
>
> NOTE: Executing RunQueue Tasks
> ERROR: Function failed: grub: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: /opt/work/tmp/work/x86_64-montavista-linux/grub/2.00-r1.2.2/grub-2.00/COPYING
> ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /opt/work/tmp/work/x86_64-montavista-linux/grub/2.00-r1.2.2/temp/log.do_configure.628
> Log data follows:
> | DEBUG: Executing python function sysroot_cleansstate
> ...
> | DEBUG: Python function do_qa_configure finished
> | ERROR: Function failed: grub: LIC_FILES_CHKSUM points to an invalid file: /opt/work/tmp/work/x86_64-montavista-linux/grub/2.00-r1.2.2/grub-2.00/COPYING
> ERROR: Task 5 (/opt/work/tmp/layers/openembedded-core-1.4-1411101352/openembedded-core-1.4-1411101352/meta/recipes-bsp/grub/grub_2.00.bb, do_configure) failed with exit code '1'
>
> If i take my layer out of my conf/extra-layers.conf ,recipe builds ok.
>
> My layer is:
>
> releases
> ├── meta-mycompany
> │   ├── conf
> │   │   └── layer.conf
> │   ├── README
> │   ├── recipes
> │       ├── grub
> │       │   ├── files
> │       │   │   ├── grubatca.cfg
> │       │   │   └── grubmni.cfg
> │       │   └── grub_2.00.bbappend
> │       ├── images
> │          ├── mycompany-atca-image.bb
> │          └── mycompany-atca-image-buildcf.bb
> ├── meta-mycompany.tar.bz2
> ├── meta-mycompany.tar.bz2.md5
>
> Do you know what is the problem?
> Must an .append recipe also provide a LICENCE file? Where?
>
> Thank you
>